The safety of medical skin care products should depend on the type of medical skin care products are coming into the Chinese market, dermatologists and dermatology patients at an unexpected speed. In the face of the influx of products and numerous advertising campaigns, dermatologists should be at the forefront of the industry and have a correct and clear understanding of the products. Should correctly understand the definition of medical skin care products As a dermatologist, we must correctly understand the definition of medical skin care products and the background of their creation. Nowadays, many doctors are concerned about “medical skin care products”, many manufacturers are also in various forms of publicity of their “medical skin care products”, however, many people actually do not understand the definition of medical skin care products, the background of the emergence of the relationship with the ordinary skin care products, and related policies and regulations. The concept of medical skincare products was first introduced in the United States in the early 1990s. The concept of medical skin care products was first proposed by Raymond E. Reed in 1962, and in the 70s, Albert Kligman, the founder of cosmetic dermatology, proposed the word “cosmeceutical”, which consists of the word “cosmetic”. (cosmetic)” and “pharmaceutical (medicine)” synthesized, so literally understood as “some cosmetics with similar functions to drugs”, that is, the so-called “crossover” products. “Kligman’s definition of medical skin care products is: both cosmetic features and certain drug characteristics of a new class of products, or in the definition of between cosmetics and dermatology topical drugs. At present, China’s translation of the term cosmeceutical has not been unified, including pharmaceutical products, functional cosmetics, etc., while the medical profession used the most is “medical skin care products”. Some people think that “skincare products sold in drugstores are cosmeceuticals”, which is wrong. In fact, medical skin care products are not safer than ordinary cosmetics, the key depends on the type of product. If the skin care products are specially designed for sensitive skin, its irritation and allergy will be much lower than the chance of occurrence, the safety will be higher than ordinary products, but some whitening spot, anti-wrinkle, anti-acne and other products is just the opposite, and they also belong to the medical skin care products. Why did you come up with such a new term as “cosmeceutical”? One of the main reasons is from the definition and management of cosmetics regulations, because the U.S. FDA in the definition of cosmetics, cosmetics only play a role in cleaning, beautification, increase the charm or change the appearance of the role of cosmetics can not affect the structure and function of the human body, that is, there is no therapeutic effect of the product. However, in fact, many products will varying degrees on the structure and function of the skin to produce a certain effect, thus producing a certain effect, its function has exceeded the scope of the definition of cosmetics. If cosmetic companies want to make claims about efficacy in advertising and publicity, according to existing regulations is a violation, so the cosmetic industry in order to break through the barriers of the definition of cosmetics and regulations, put forward such a new term, the purpose is to make such products in the regulatory treatment to retain cosmetics, to avoid being strictly regulated. However, the term has not been universally recognized, and two years ago, China’s Food and Drug Administration issued a special document prohibiting companies from claiming their products as medical skincare products, medicinal cosmetics, and so on. Any skin care products can not be separated from the cosmetic properties Medical skin care products, broadly speaking, refers to China’s nine categories of special-purpose cosmetics, in addition to a number of other products, such as anti-acne class, dandruff class and products for sensitive skin. Therefore, the efficacy of medical skin care products (i.e., active ingredients) are varied, based on different products have different ingredients and formulations. Whitening products mainly contain arbutin and other tyrosine inhibitors, anti-wrinkle products containing vitamin A alcohol and vitamin A aldehyde, anti-acne products containing pumpkin, glycolic acid, etc., and some ingredients have a variety of functions at the same time, such as if the acid can be both blemish, but also anti-wrinkles, can also be anti-acne, etc., and many of the current publicity mentioned in the “preservative-free, no flavor and fragrance! “for sensitive skin and skin barrier function repair hypoallergenic, low stimulation moisturizing products are just one of the categories. It should also be noted that skin care products are composed of active ingredients and substrates and other components, no matter how natural it claims, can not be separated from the attributes of cosmetics fine chemical industrial products. We need to understand the current status of medical skin care products, the scope of clinical applications and market prospects. At present, there are still a lot of problems in China’s supervision of the cosmetics market, the medical skin care market is even more chaotic, many products are mixed up, good and bad, and many products are not in line with the norms of labeling and claims. However, today’s medical skin care products have indeed become the mainstream of the market, and its application in dermatology is becoming more and more extensive, and has even become an important adjunct to the treatment of many skin diseases, cosmetic lasers and fruit acid peeling, and its market application prospects are very broad. It is foreseeable that in the near future, the concept of medical skin care products will eventually be recognized by the government administration, and the research and development of cosmetics will pay more attention to the development of efficacy aspects in addition to continuing to focus on safety. In addition, we must know how to guide patients or consumers to correctly select and use medical skin care products, and we must be good at proposing “medical skin care initiatives” to patients or consumers, so as to raise the public’s awareness of scientific skin care.